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Evota Fleming
b. circa 1322
Birth
Evota Fleming was born circa 1322.
Parents
| Father | Malcolm ("the Good") Fleming, of Fulwood, 1st Earl of Wigtown (b. circa 1280, d. before 11 January 1358) |
| Mother | Marjory the Queen's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown (b. circa 1290, d. before 7 July 1361) |
Family life
John, of Ramsay, and Evota Fleming were married in 1342. Oram records that "Eva" recieved a gift of 40 shillings from the King, "perhaps related to her impending marriage to John Ramsay, with whom she recieved a royal grant of Tannadice in Angus".1,2,3,4
Partner with John, of Ramsay, (b. circa 1320)
Property5
Evota Fleming possessed recieved (with her husband) the thanage of Tannadyce from the King before 1359 in Tannadyce.2,4 She possessed was favoured in retaining estates that, by law, were meant to be resumed by the crown circa 1359.6
Citations
- [S23] Peter Barns-Graham, Peter Barns-Graham, "Families Database," pedigrees, Stirnet Limited, Families Database (https://www.stirnet.com/: accessed ), ., downloaded; 2000; Fleming of Boghall and Wigtown at https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ff/fleming01.php
- [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
- [S41] Richard Oram, The making and breaking of a comital family, p19
- [S107] Thomas Thomson, The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland, vol i, p 343
- [S107] Thomas Thomson, The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland, vol i, p 280
- [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum, vol 2, p xl, note 3
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